Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

You have this one life. So just live it and just do it.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.